GF Fañabe

Guests praise the spacious, clean rooms and convenient beach proximity. The friendly staff provides excellent service. However, no disadvantages were mentioned in the reviews.

Just back from a 2 week stay with my family, this hotel has the potential to be good but unfortunately is let down by quite a few aspects. Rooms are ok, a bit dated but clean and cleaned every day to a good standard. Towels replaced every day and beds changed when requested by leaving a card on your pillow. I have to say the cleaners are one of the few positives this hotel has to offer, always friendly, helpful and do a good job. We did find quite a few cockroaches in our room but found leaving the light on seemed to deter them from coming out. Food is a real let down, there’s plenty of choice but it’s poor quality. A few days we found the food to be cooked lovely and it was very tasty. More often than not though it was undercooked (raw turkey and chicken on more than one occasion) or over cooked. Pasta is one of the easiest dishes to make yet every day the pasta was very overcooked, it was mushy almost. Also every day pork, pork and more pork! We were half board and ended up going elsewhere as we were so sickened by it. Some of the waiting staff we also found to be quite miserable, mostly those in the white shirts ( older lady with glasses and guy with baldy head). If you don’t like your job find something else instead of being so miserable! The pool area is rough, where do I even start. Well it begins at around 5.30/5.45 with staff dragging sun loungers around the pool setting up for the day. I was woken almost every morning of our stay at this time! Why can this not be done in the evening or later in the morning? On our first morning I couldn’t believe my eyes when I was woken to see everyone sitting in the dark on the loungers! By 7/7.15 all loungers are gone, the hotel did try to stop this by removing any towels left unattended but I don’t feel this really helped the issue in any way. I’ve stayed at other hotels that stack the beds up and chain them to prevent this from happening and it worked really well, only allowing people in from 9.30. I think the hotel needs to do something like this as it’s out of control at the minute. Also during our 2 weeks I didn’t see the pool area being cleaned once! Under the loungers are filthy with many having a buildup of black mud/sludge. There was a false nail under one lounger for 8 days! Anywhere else I’ve stayed has power washed or deck scrubbed the pool area every day or every other day. Please give the pool area a good clean!!! Entertainment at the pool during the day was good and the team put in a good effort to keep the kids and adults busy. In the evening however some of the acts at the pool bar were bloody awful! It’s very loud and even in your room you can’t escape it. I heard other guests also complaining how awful it was some nights. We didn’t use the spa so can’t comment on that although it looked very reasonably priced. The bar can be a bit pricey, there didn’t seem to be a good choice for those all inclusive. Overall we did not enjoy our stay and would not return to this hotel.

We stayed here for a week 03.08.25-10.08.25 the staff were all friendly and polite soon as we got to reception they said our room was ready us. The room was big and spacious and had a balcony which we got a side view of the small pools and had the zip line swing and football pitch facing us. The food wasn’t great as I am a fussy eater but my our daughter managed to find a little something to eat. Breakfast was a no no for us we only went down once and I couldn’t rate that at all. We did find a restaurant across the road that served English and Scottish breakfast that was quite nice. I must say trying to get a sun bed was quite difficult as people had their towels on them before 9am. There was a lovely lady called Sara who worked at the bar she always made us feel welcome 😀. They had children’s entertainment that was ok and the evening entertainment wasn't too bad either. We did notice as well that after 11pm along the corridors you would hear children making a noise and running along as there are gaps under the door you can hear everything. Our room was cleaned daily to a good standard and towels changed everyday. We did go to Fanabe beach where we hired a paddle boat for €25 for the hour, that was fun. We also went on the train tour which was €42 double return trip, we spent some time at Playa De Las Americas it was really lovely. Thursday and Saturday there was the Fañabe market behind our hotel that had some lovely stalls, bags hats clothes gifts etc we bought quite a few things from here at good prices. We did take part in a survey along the beach where we won a free bottle of wine which we collected at a local hotel and we also picked a card and won a free holiday they did take our details so hope to hear from them soon 🤞🏻 (we are still waiting to hear back as they said 10 days after you arrive back in the UK, we are hoping that they do contact us otherwise it’s false information and advertment) Overall it was a lovely holiday and would recommend to families. 👍🏻